Name Directory

Cameron, Ross K (Chaplain) RCAF. Royal Canadian Air Force

B. April 30th 1918. (Earlier) 11th Light Field Ambulance. Army Blood Transfusion Unit Work for 2 months at Belsen

St Mary’s b. 6th Oct 1922 d. 12th Dec 1974

The Belsen Gang More

Canadian. I have a photo of my father there. His platoon was the unit that found the place. He was a combat veteran but he once said to me of all the torments his mind kept reminding him of this was the most vivid. He never got over it. More

RAF. Wing Commander

(113th LAA)

Major. Coldstream Guards More

Born in Salem, Oct. 31, 1924, he was the son of Maurice E. and Gertrude (Crane) Carr. He was a graduate of St. John's Preparatory School. Mr Carr was an ambulance driver for the American Field Service with Britain's 8th army in Italy and in Germany with its 2nd army. He was in the first allied medical team to evacuate prisoners from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 during World War I

REME More

A Lineman in the 370th battery, 113th DLI Service No. 14291548

I know that my Grandad was one of the allied forces to liberate the people of Belsen Camp. If you have any details on his time there I would appreciate it. His name: Patrick Chamber Date of Birth 6th July 1917 Address: Ford Houses Wolverhampton West Midlands .

Soldier

58th LAA Regt RA My grandfather was Major Charles Chapman. He only spoke of his experience just before he died. He was 44 years old when he crossed over to France 58th LAA Regt RA were at Belsen April 16

“The young soldier on the dozer was Frank Chapman 21 years old. He had to do this terrible job I met him at the 50 years commemoration at Bergen Belsen in 1995.” - Hetty Verolme

Letter dated 15th May, 1945 “The full story of Belsen has yet to be written, but when the day dawns of its publication this most brutal, inhuman and ghastly Hell on earth will be revealed to the whole world.......I do not believe in gloating and publishing the sins of another whether that be a man or a nation, but this is a crime of which the whole world should know....”

224th Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC More

1915 - 1992

Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) More

C Platoon 567 Coy AFS (American Field Service) Bayard D. Clarkson [CM 90, D Platoon, 485 Company (Coy)] also participated in the evacuation and cleanup of the camp. Clarkson carried many survivors in his arms and brought them to an area where they could be stripped of their uniforms, wrapped in blankets, and deloused by German nurses.

My late father My William Clifford was in the 8th Army Royal Artillery 1456039 (Gunner Clifford) and told me he was at the liberation of Belsen. It affected him deeply and he would not talk about it. He also served on police duty at the Nuremburg trials of the SS officers. He did have several small photos of the bodies piled high but he burnt them just before he died.

113th DLI - Probably 369 Battery More

14 Amplifier Unit. Use of loud-speaker to restore order in the camp; organisation of inmates for first distribution of food in the camp; arrest of collaborators from among inmates of the camp; organisation of an interpreters pool from among inmates of the camp, the marshalling of the first 3,000 “healthy” women evacuated from the camp to the Panzer Training School (in cooperation with 250 Mil. Gov. Det.); allotting of evacuated people to new quarters, carried out by Sgt E. A. Clyne of 14 Amplifier Unit (in co-operation with 904 Mil. Gov. Det.) Marked on IWM photos as Clynne from Hampstead

(No 1442868, 205/89th AA Regiment, No 7 section Mideast Forces. The issue is that he died in the 70's so not much info is left. He did however tell a story of being at Bergen-Belsen. He was an artist and was commissioned to document the camp along with alot of other officers from the British army etc. He told a story of meeting Kramer and painting his portrait for later exhibitions. The painting was lost after the war when my Nan and Pop took it to an exhibition and it was gone when they went to collect it. On the off chance anyone has ever heard of a painting of Kramer with the Signature at the bottom showing as CAP, I think I would believe in miracles, but is worth a try.

Ambulance Driver Jewish relief British Army

Medical Student. St Thomas

32 CSS Caught Typhus at Belsen and suffered very badly. Evacuated to England and died from the disease. Registered Deaths: x1 d. 1945, Birmingham (Born 1921) Frederick H x1 d. 1946 Wirral, Cheshire (Born 1902) Frederick C x1 d. 1946, Stoke on Trent (Born 1874 - so can probably discard this reference) Frederick NO records later than 1946.

Quaker

Official War Artist. More

Birth 25 NOV 1907 • Bristol. England. Death 20 FEB 1975 • 41 Dormer Road, Bristol. England

Red Cross

My dad told me his brother Dominic Comer who was a cook in the R.A.F. Was involved in the liberation of Belsen, and he only ever spoke about what he had experienced once. I was shocked as my uncle was a very happy cheerful much loved uncle who showed no signs of what he had been through. I do not have his records or i.d no.

R.A.F. cook

RAMC More

April 15 1912 - April 15, 1998

Medical Student. St Thomas

Tank Driver 23rd Hussars RAMC

Recovery Group 1939-1946

Hi my name is Belinda Cooledge I believe my grandfather William Cooledge (Bill) was one of the British armies to go into Bergen Belsen to liberate the camp he was a driver. Grandad told me he went in with other forces to liberate the camp. My father and uncle's (my Grandfather's sons) have also confirmed this to be true.

"The fact is that all these were once clean-living and sane and certainly not the type to do harm to the Nazis. They are Jews and are dying now at the rate of three hundred a day. They must die and nothing can save them - their end is inescapable, they are too far gone now to be brought back to life. I saw their corpses lying near their hovels, for they crawl or totter out into the sunlight to die. I watched them make their last feeble journeys, and even as I watched they died." Peter Coombs, British soldier, May 4, 1945 letter to his wife after liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

Bio - first in 1SAS

described how she was ‘now running a building with 180 patients who are being looked after by ten German orderlies, three German sisters and two German doctors, and I might add it is not an unpleasant position to be in, that of supervising doctors, and telling them what to do, quite apart from them being Germans’.

Medical Officer, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion Arrived Belsen on 15th April. Stayed for 2 days.

Sergent de transport, Fusilier Mont-Royal. (Admin: Thank you Yves, do you have any more information? Please email us liberator@belsen.co.uk)

Miss Cotton was in the first British Red Cross Unit which worked in Belsen after the liberation. 22 September 1954 - Shields Daily News

Possibly Courts, from Wisbech in Cambridgeshire Details to follow...

113 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

Born Dundee 1910. Royal Horse Artillery One of the first British doctors to enter Beslen.

Canadian Ms. Creelman was sent first to England and a year later to Germany as Chief Nurse of the British Occupied Zone. She was in charge of nursing at Bergen-Belsen after the British liberated the concentration camp. (REF. Direct quote)

113 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery 113th DLI, LAA More

(113th LAA)

I had an Uncle who was in the Paras and was one of the first Catholic chaplains who was part of the liberation of the camp. I have a photo of him in uniform. His name was Fr Cornelius Crowley,a Passionist priest. He never mentioned anything about his experiences and I only heard about him being in Belsen after his death. He was in Norway too and took part in a parachute jumps in Norway.... As a result of these ,he arranged for a German POW ' for a dog ,a German shepherd,be sent back to us in Ireland. So,we grew up with that dog,named Hasso. .

33rd Armoured Brigade RASC More

In 1939, John joined the Canadian Army as a private and went overseas for the duration of WWII. He landed on Juno Beach on D-Day, celebrated the liberation of Holland in Os and witnessed the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. He received a Commission with the British Army and finished the war as a Captain. John remained in the army and retired as a Lt. Colonel in 1970, the commanding officer of CFB Cobourg. Passed away in March 2014 in his 96th year after a hard-fought battle against old age. John was predeceased in 2012 by his much loved wife of 67 years, Elizabeth,

Belfast born, British Army chaplain. More

Pipe Major of the 2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders More (1923-2014)